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How long can items be held in the STM without making an effort to rehearse them?
=up to 30 seconds approximately
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Is the STM best described as a permanent store or a temporary store?
=a temporary store
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How much information can LTM hold?
=unlimited because it does not get full
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What is most important for encoding semantic LTM- understanding the meaning, or seeing a visual image?
=understanding the meaning because it uses semantic encoding
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Name two things that can act as a cue to retrieving a memory.
=the first letter, a question, an image, or an aspect of the learning context
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What is another term for STM and emphasises that it is an active process?
=working memory
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Explain the role of attention in taking in new memories.
=information is only taken into memory is a person pays attention to it. This typically happens when they find things interesting or emotional.
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Explain the role of repetition in the process of encoding things to LTM.
=It is important for memory, as more exposure increases the chance of encoding. More important processes are active, such as linking new information to what is already known/ retrieving information from memory in a way that is spaced out over time.
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Briefly describe a possible experiment that could be run to demonstrate the primacy and recency effect.
=Read to a list of random words out a group of participants, and each one would have to write down as many words, The researcher would count how many times each word was written, they should expect results to be that words and beginning and end were
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How long does sensory memory last, and what is its capacity?
= its is a brief store, it has a large capacity but a duration of only 0.5 seconds.
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State the definition of false memory?
=when someone remembers events differently from the way they happened or, in the most dramatic case, remember events that never happened at all. False memories can be very vivid and held with high confidence.
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Name four factors that affect memory.
=culture, timing, interference and context.
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Is the STM best described as a permanent store or a temporary store?

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=a temporary store

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How much information can LTM hold?

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What is most important for encoding semantic LTM- understanding the meaning, or seeing a visual image?

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Name two things that can act as a cue to retrieving a memory.

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